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Volume 66, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0081-8933
  • E-ISSN: 2507-0428

Abstract

Abstract

The article describes the distribution of the long and short forms of verbs III. in Biblical (Masoretic) Hebrew, with a total of 110 short forms 2171 long forms. There are no general rules able to explain all long forms found in the Biblical text. There are, however, a number of regularities or tendencies, which can be empirically observed. The long forms are relatively widespread 1) in the first and in the second (few occurrences) persons; 2) in the Prophets, the poetic books, Daniel, Ezra und Nehemiah; 3) in the first person in Joshua - Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Job, Proverbs, Qohelet, Daniel, and Chronicles; 4) in the third person in Kings (especially 1 Kgs 16 - 2 Kgs 13) and Jeremiah; 5) with doubly weak verbs (except and ); 6) in the , and ; 7) in northern prose; 8) at the end of a clause; 9) before a direct object; 10) in the apodosis of a double clause; 11) before a laryngeal (except ). The long forms are relatively seldom 1) in the third person; 2) in the Torah (very seldom), Joshua - Samuel, Ruth and Esther (none in either), and Chronicles; 3) in the third and second persons in the Torah (none), the Twelve Prophets, and the Writings (); 4) in northern poetry; 5) with verbs I. and I., especially (none in the third and second persons) and (none); 6) with verbs both I. and II. (none); 7) before the subject; 8) before sibilants, velars, , and In a few cases the long forms express a nuance different from the short forms: 1) in the first person of (description of a durative state); 2) in the third person of (“rebuild”); 3) with in Ezekiel (emphasis on the act of seeing rather than on the object which is seen).

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